Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-08

MASTER OF TIE department. oil
opened proposals for 1900
soft wood and $500 tons
coal for use at Fort Bufor5
lowest bid for coal was thai
Taylor of Williston, and "
per ton. The lowest bid ford
was that OF w. b.. Jordon. sf
at S4.S7 per cord, and for gres
o. II. Beal of Bismarck, at s.
cord.
Mathies Dairy, a farmer aesd
living six miles east of De SIND
to Preston, bought a revolvs1
into the cemetery and shot
dead. The cause is unknown.
Solomon Pitcher was accidl
shot and killed by Jacob Hs
Columbia while hunting prair@
ems. The remains were tai
Prairie du Chen, his former he
Webster tDak.l Special.
Hanson OF Day county arrestej
Vanderford, charged with horsS
itg. Sheriff B. III. Corcoran can
a requisition, and took Vander3
Pierce county, where the crime
to have been committed.
AT the first charter election. 4
Minot, HI. Scofeld was elected
Or, p. n. McMamara, treasurer
A. Mott, E. III. BeIyea, Eugene
man, P. III. Fields, William Bru5
John Wood, alderman.
The storm OF the 9th inst. al
ing. twenty-eigh miles east 81
marck, only covered asmallterri
but very severe hail fell to the
of two inches. Thirty feet OF trs
the Northern Pacific railroa
washed out.
One hundred acres just We
Bathgate threshed and yielded
bushels No. L hard. Ninety =
near Bathgate went 81 bushes
acre On Is acres were threshed
bushels-45 bushels per acre.
other farm rs acres aseraQed
bushels per acre.
The latest sensation at RedfsI5
been the severe illness OF Miss a
Reed, one OF Redfeld's prom
bellies. which reveals her clande
marriage about three weeks as
Ashton to a party from Elk II
who has been called to her SICK
The secretary of the interior 4
fled the decision of the commissi1
canceling the entries of Eliza
Rhodes of a quarter section 10 sets'
4, township 113, range rs, H
land district. The claimant is q (
ow sixty-ive years old, and ali
poor health for failure to cor
with the law. The secretary Til
the claimant had better be give
chance to make new proof.
st. Stevens Episcopal church
Casselton was recently dedicated!
Bishop Walker. This church /
erected, furnished complete, and q
the society by Gen. Cass OF New u
city. 1t is the hahdsomest 81
church in North Dakota, and 1
style of architecture old English
the thirteenth century, with q
tached tower. The cost was $5,5
Among the clergymen present I
Bishop Walker of Fargo and Rev.
Mulchahey of New York.
III. A Humphrey, through his pal
the Times, has directly charged ca
ty Commissioner d. II. Smith !
illegally and fraGdulently voting a
recent Faulkton election, and i
mates that an effort viii be made
the meeting of the first grand Jury
have the commissioner indicted.
Charles Potter, rector OF the Hu
Episcopal church, and Miss NH
Bishop, were married in Watkins,
T., the home OF the bride.
Mrs. Dan Baker, of East Wa
town, attempted to I'll a case
stove while lighted. Shemay poss
recover.
The trouble among Dakota catt
supposed by the health officers b
foot and mouth disease and not T
ro-pneumonia.
At Huron, the free delivery sys
was set in operation here by the p
Office department. Two carriers
employed.
At Mortified, Clara Reidel,
about Is, was murdered and
house fired to conceal the crime
brother returning from a neighb
found the house on fire, forced az
trance, and found his sisters b
lying across the bed horribly bur
He managed to drag the body
the house and barn being destrt
by fire. At the inquest it was dis
cred that she had been choked
stabbed, not raped, as tirstsuppo
The cracker factory at Sioux 1
intends to make 200 barrels OF CT
ers per day.
The McCook county fair wall be
at Salem September 81, 20 and q
The new Congregational church
Buffalo Gap was dedicated.
The Dakota university at Mite
begins its fall term September 2S
has a preparatory, a collegiate, q
mai and a musical departments
Three balloon ascensions are
nounced at Mitchell, at the 7
torial Fair on the last three d
lone each day. Sept. 2Sth. Goth.
Both. The ascensions will be n
BY the celebrated aeronaut, Prof.
Comes, of Springfield, Ills, undel
management Of Thos. Jewell. Jr.
The funeral of Mrs. VIM. Elliott.
OF the early settlers of Moody cou
occurred recently.
The arrival OF the Nip e4polis
Pacific cars at Oaks ~ eelebr
with much enthusiasm.
Elmer Hail of Grand Rapids
been adiudged insane by the pr
authorities, and be will be take
the jamestown asylumfor trestn
He had been bitten by a dog
this spring, and the continual fe
falling the victim of hydrophobia
too great a strain upon his mind
drove him insane.
There is renewed talk OF the
pointment of Mr.. Semmes, the lie
of the louisiana bar, to the sup
court. He is master of both com
and civil law, the latter being the
sis of the Jurisprudence OF Louisi
derived from the French system.
| studied under ,Justice Story